and i met a lovely young lady, and she became my wife. that's a wonderful story. and did you stay in bomb disposal? yes. i came back to jersey. so the state needed someone to look after the german bombs so for the next 35 years i did all the bombs that were found after the war. now, then, you, sir, have brought along a german morse key. where did you get that from? yes. i took that from a bunker that was made to look like a cottage because they had an ack ack gun inside it. and if there was a raid and they wanted to use the gun they just dropped the side of the cottage. why did you steal this? why did you pinch it? because it happened to be german and we were-- don't forget, we were deprived of many things by the occupying forces. because of our patriotism, we listened illegally to crystal sets, on the crystal sets. now, that could've got you into terrible

trouble, couldn't it? well, early on you could be deported for that kind of thing. yes, yes. so it was quite astonishing to feel that, you know we were actually-- there is a contact from the outside behind the barbed wire. i understand. of course. because you can't imagine what jersey was like if you weren't here with barbed wire all around the coast and mine fields. now, you must've been around of course, on liberation day. i was indeed. and what happened to you, then? i was in my clogs because we didn't have shoes. we'd run out of shoes. and myself and a pal we decided to go across the harbor to the ss vega, which was the swedish ship that had brought us much-needed red cross parcels. so we made our way around the harbor, and the smell of sausages and bacon being cooked for us was absolutely amazing. it was the one most wonderful meal i think i've ever had. how marvelous.

and did you see the liberating troops come in? i did, indeed, yes and there was so much jubilation, so much joy. now, then, after those two wonderful stories, which link together beautifully for liberation day in jersey 1945, we've got to look at the two objects that you've brought with you. looking first at the german morse key, well, it might be salable. not a great deal of a market for it. i would think something in the region of £20 or 30 today something like that. now, as for your sticky bomb it's actually a very rare object. they almost never come on the market and if this came up today, you would get somewhere in the region of £500 to 700 for it. whoa. ( laughs ) i thought it was junk. perhaps you two need to go over and have a nice chat about liberation day now, i think. oh, thank you. nice to have met you. thank you.

a liberator and the liberated. thank you very much, sir. and we did appreciate your bravery. thank you very much. herbert a. woodsford, 1931. who's herbert woodsford? herbert woodsford was my great-great-uncle who made the violin, a jersey man, in 1931. he was a cabinet maker for the firm tagushi's and he was also an amateur violinist who played in shows and orchestras in the island. and i believe, from what my aunt, who is in her nineties has told me he just wanted to try and make a violin from the spare bits of wood he had when he was making his cabinets. so this could have been a wardrobe. it could have been a wardrobe. and it ended up as a violin. well, that's often the case. very often that people who like making violins can't simply make a business out of it but they actually have to do it as a part-time thing. he's chosen some lovely wood. on the back here we've got birds-eye maple. the areas where one thinks that he might be a touch of an amateur are these double black lines known as purfling.

they aren't particularly regular but the modeling and by modeling, we mean the sort of three-dimensionality of it is actually very, very good indeed. i must say i don't think i've ever held a jersey violin before. how did it comet to you? well, we heard about it five years ago. it was brought into a local music shop to be looked at, and then someone contacted me and said, "we've seen this violin with the name woodsford in it. does it belong to you?" and we contacted the then owner and she didn't want to sell it, and then eight months ago, she did want to sell it and it was bought for me. and can i ask you how much was paid for it? £2,000 was paid. £2,000. well, you know people may have an intake of breath on that but actually, £2,000 is not a lot of money for a violin, especially if it's a good one. i don't think you or whoever paid too much for it. in fact, that is actually cheap for some violins. so let's put it to the test. i'm going to ask you can you give us a jersey jig? no, but i can give you an irish jig.

an irish jig. well, go on. off you go. thank you very much. ( plays jig ) so what can you tell me about this object you brought in today? well, my father-in-law was a great collector, but i don't remember him telling me anything about this but, you know, i've certainly kept it very carefully. and what sort of things did he collect? oh, chinese, egyptian. hence this. and what do you think this is made of? well, i think it's bone. it's ivory, in fact. it's ivory? yes, it's elephant ivory. and the date, have you any idea on the date? no idea. do you?

the more i look at it, the more i think it's a wonderful piece of ivory. egyptian, as you say and it's in the form, really of a flat and naked body with a head there going down to the rather crudely carved feet at the end. oh, i love the feet. yeah, they're beautiful, aren't they? in an attractive way. and you can see the striations on the ivory, and if you turn it over, you can see the other side. i think it's a wonderful piece. any idea what it might have been used for? well, i think it was a spatula. i think, you know, he or she. for cooking. no, i think more for sort of makeup or whatever they used in those days. well, i think it might have been a mirror holder, a handle for a mirror, or possibly for a fan, because this could well have sealed up in the ensuing years. and a mirror could be attached. i think it's a wonderful object. now, we mentioned a date. where would you place it do you think? oh, goodness knows. i have no idea.

you're the expert. well, i think that is dynastic and i suspect it's somewhere between one and 2,500 years bc. gosh. so undoubtedly it's the oldest object we've seen on the roadshow today and could be up to as i say, 4,000 years old. we have to talk about value, and it would need to be confirmed that it is of that date but assuming it's of that period, a little object like this, i think it's got to be worth £2,000 or 3,000. yes. but one would never sell it. i'm delighted to hear it. never. i really enjoyed seeing it. thank you very much for bringing it in. well, the allied leaders of the first world war as toby jugs. they're great models individually but you've got the complete set which is wonderful. how did you come to get the whole set? well, my father was a keen collector and just went round antique shops and he saw them in a shop in cornwall. did he buy them individually or did he. no, it was a set. it was a complete set.

well, the toby jugs were modeled by a great political cartoonist with the grand name of sir francis carruthers gould. and he was known by his initials fcg, which appear on the base of each model. because they were designed by carruthers gould, but they're manufactured by wilkinsons, the great staffordshire pottery, who is better known later on for making clarice cliff. right. and they were issued as limited editions, and this is really the first time a set was produced in very set numbers, a limited edition with certificates. and you've got some of the certificates there. yes, i have. i have some certificates. nice. well, there's the first one, the kitchener jug, and the label here shows that it was a certificate for only 250 were made. that was back in 1915. then subsequent ones were editions of 350. of course, do you recognize all the characters? do you know who they all are? no, i don't. i'm not sure. no. in a way, he's probably the easiest to recognize because with his mustache, and because we all know him from the famous poster.

but here we've got the british army represented by kitchener. we've got field marshal haig. he's riding on a tank, very proudly coming in to the battle. and next to him, there's lord french. we've got the-- the navy is next and there is admiral beatty, and that one is the other admiral, that's jellicoe. and the next one along who's that? that's the prime minister. there's david lloyd george. and what's it say? shell out. because he wants you to raise money for the cause of the war. then we've got to have the king himself and there he is, the most splendid of all, i think. and there is george v, proudly sitting on a throne with gilded lions and holding the globe with the british empire on it. i mean, they're very patriotic things, aren't they? very. and very much in the old traditions of toby jugs. they're humorous and amusing. but their faces are so good.

i mean, that's one of the last one in the series and we've got-.that's general botha, the south african. he's the one which no one can remember and was the hardest to get. because he was less well known, and that's perhaps the rarest one. can you remember what your father paid for it? well, i doubt he paid more than... i don't know, maybe 500 for the whole lot. perhaps not as much. and the value does vary. normally they come up individually and the single figures most of them sell for around about £450-500 when they come up by themselves. so that's each, rather than for the set now. but then the king is one of the hard ones to find. i think he appeals also to royal collectors. and so he's now well over £1,000. and surprisingly there at the end that one doesn't look much different. because he didn't sell so many, botha is quite rare. and he alone is worth more than £3,000. so it adds all up to the set.

we've got a set which is now worth complete well, at least £9,000. wow. wow. they won't be going very far. ( laughs ) now the history of design is landmarked with significant pieces which for me show how styles, looks, changed. and for me, this is one of those landmark pieces. but tell me, how did you come to be united with such a fabulous piece of 20th century design? well, my parents were collectors of this sort of design of art and back in the early sixties they bought it from liberties as a dressing table for my mother, and she used it until her death. and it's a beautiful piece that we've always liked but we do like fornasetti's work. well, you mentioned the great name there. you mentioned the big key point, and the fact that this desk actually represents the collaboration of two of the greatest designers of post-war italy,

one being gio ponti, and one being piero fornasetti. now, gio ponti who was basically an architect of enormous merit, but gio ponti also turned his hands to interior design to product design, to ceramics and even to furniture. and it was in 1940 where he met the young piero fornasetti and instantly was just blown away by this young kid this designer who liked to play with imagery with illusion, with trompe l'oeil effects. and this meeting in 1940 actually marked a friendship that ran for many years and also the creation of some of the most significant pieces of post-war italian design. and that's what makes it so exciting. i mean, just look at the desk itself. i mean, first off, we have in the drawer at the bottom here the little telltale mark which is just a little tablet marked fornasetti, milano.

but what it was, it was the combination of gio ponti's form, and he worked on this process. he called it the forma finite the finite form. the pureness of the line an economy of line and that can be seen in everything from his massive high rise buildings to this little desk. and it's just all about new materials, but again reinvention, because we've got lacquer work over the body of the furniture which is then being transferred with these beautiful silver foil images then all color washed in. i mean, it's just... it's just a joy. an absolute joy. it's exceptionally feminine and beautiful. i mean, imagine-- i mean, how stylish your mother was to have gone into liberties in london and made this choice. she was a very stylish lady, and this is perfectly her. it does sum her up and she used it every day? absolutely. this for me is as current today

as it was when it was first made in the mid-1950s. and that's what brings us to value, really because it is so in fashion that if you had to go out and replace this i'm afraid you wouldn't be getting much change out of £20,000 to 25,000. yeah. well, it's considerably more than what she paid for it. which was? well, i would've thought about 200 at the very most. so in a classic world, we've moved that decimal point in the right direction. yeah. it's a very beautiful piece. i'll never sell it. as they say, a thing of beauty is a joy forever. this is an absolute joy. thank you so much. brilliant. my pleasure. all our experts on the roadshow here are great collectors and in this series i'm going to be asking them which is the most prized possession in their collection.

but even they make mistakes, so i'll also be asking them which is their biggest disappointment. now, paul viney. disappointment? i can't believe you've got any. yeah, indeed i've got a significant disappointment and it's a book. and it's a very famous book. it's casino royale by ian fleming. of course. famous. in the early 1950s fleming was about to get married for the first time at the age of 40. he was horrified by the prospect, and so he was sitting in his house in jamaica and he thought he'd write a novel. so he sat down at his typewriter and he typed the opening sentence one of the great opening sentences of 20th century literature: "the scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3:00 in the morning." well, you wouldn't necessarily think that opening sentence would lead to the james bond phenomenon that we know today but it did. why is this a disappointment, then? well, in the 1980s i was living in oxford and i was always interested in the literature of james bond and i decided to collect first editions. and you could buy them for £10, 15, 20 in those days.

and the bookseller i went to had two copies of casino royale. one was priced at £20. this one. and the other had its dust jacket on and was priced at £50. my wife and i had just bought our first house. i couldn't really afford the 50, so i bought the one without the dust jacket, and that was a big mistake. was it? yes, because today 50 years later without the dust jacket, probably, maybe £150. if i had casino royale with the dust jacket upwards of £10,000. yeah. no. i know. it's amazing, isn't it? ( all laugh ) and why would just a dust jacket make that much difference? because it is crucial to collectors, absolutely vital. so if i came across just a dust jacket of casino royale for £1,000, i'd buy it, because it would transport this to many times its value. extraordinary. big mistake. then this, inexorably, must be your most prized possession.

it is indeed, fiona. about 35 years ago an antique dealer rang me up and said, "i've got a trunk you might be interested in," and i said, "all right. i'll pop in and have a look at it." and i did and it was this trunk which is normally called a portmanteau, and it's got a carrying handle, as you can see and it would be used for carrying papers and documents. it's made of red morocco leather with brass beaded studs, but the interesting thing was when you opened it inside it had the original maker's label "john viney, trunk chest and plate case manufacturer of aldersgate street." and john viney is? well, the antique dealer thought because i had the same name i might be interested in the trunk as indeed i was. what he didn't know was that it was my great-great-great grandfather who made this trunk. really? so it was a very special moment for me. i bought it and i've had it ever since. and from the family history aldersgate street, we know that he was working there from 1809 to 1811, so we can date it pretty accurately.

and inside i keep various bits of family memorabilia. obviously when john viney was around, photography wasn't invented, but that's his son, my great-great-grandfather. and i keep all the bits of family history in it. and i have a son, oscar, and i will pass it on to him in due course. wonderful. paul, thank you so much. thank you, fiona. now here we have the title page of the atlas to one of captain cook's voyages, the second, i think, and the date is 1774 printed in paris. so tell me about it. where did you get it from? i got it in france. right. and how much did you pay for it? i paid about 500 euro. 500 euro. that's splendid. and i noticed this lovely map here that we've got. yles de la reine charlotte. so isles of queen charlotte. they named guernsey, jersey, sark alderney-- alderney and carterrey. and carterrey.

and that is absolutely-- they didn't have any other names, i suppose. they just thought, well, why not? yeah, yeah, yeah. exactly. now these are all copperplate engravings and they are really of very, very high quality. and they're absolutely superb. and here, looking at one of the views. this is captain wallace, who was presenting himself to the queen of tahiti and she is holding a palm leaf in her hand. i assume that symbolizes, you know that she's perfectly happy to see him or whatever. now, if we close this up, we can actually look at the big map of the pacific. you can see new world hollande. hollande, right. which is australia. but there's no channel between. tasmania. tasmania... and australia. yes, and australia, so they didn't know that. but this is also one of the first maps of new zealand. it's the first time captain cook went all the way around and properly charted new zealand. and so this is the first map.

and how much do you think it's worth? i've got no ideas. why do you collect these things if you have no ideas? i collect anything maritimes french and english. and especially jersey. but you are obviously very french. i am. you don't come from jersey, do you? no, i come from semalu. semalu. yes. just for the day? just to see you. ( both laugh ) splendid. splendid. well, look, i think an atlas like this i would value at about £2,000. oh. wondrous. very nice. great opulence. ( both laugh ) i'm glad it was worth the trip. oh, it was. it was. do you know there's a very important issue that affects us all at the moment? it is something that we're seeing far more in the news these days and it's bees. bees are declining at a rapid rate, and i'm a beekeeper, and last year i lost both my hives of bees. that brings us to this little object.

what, you might be saying, does this have to do with bees? you know, don't you? i know a lot about it, yes. it was something that was sent to my great-great-great-grandfather thomas woodbury, who was born in 1818. he took a great interest in bees after he had another career first and he used to actually get those bees sent to him in the post. now, this is something that most people just do not know anything about. i can order a queen on the internet and she'll arrive in the post. now, what this is is the 1850 version of a bee arriving through the post and it's a fascinating and rare little object because it's a bee cage. it is indeed. now, i know mr. woodbury as perhaps one of the great fathers of the modern bee industry. he invented the woodbury hive, which is really a modern hive as we know it. and he was very famous in his time for his work with bees. this is a wonderful little portrait of him. of course, this is in a mourning locket, so this would have been produced

perhaps soon after his death. i think it was produced fairly soon after his death. he was left with two daughters. he was very sad because he lost his son at an early age. two years he was in distinct mourning for his son and he didn't do a lot. but then i think beekeeping took his interest, and that brought him out of his problems for losing his son. do you know when he died? it was in 1870. well, actually that dates this very well for us, then because it must mean that this little bee cage is prior to 1870. and i would've thought judging by the postage stamps on it that it was probably around about 1855, 1860, something like that. it's a fascinating little object, and tied in with thomas woodbury the story is just a wonder to me. having said that let's talk about value. it's so, so difficult to put a value on an object like this. historically it's wonderful. if i saw that sitting on the side in a shop somewhere, i might well pick it up as a great bargain. but had it got a label on it for £100, i would buy it because to me, it's the most fascinating little object, even devoid of the association.

fabulous. thank you. thank you. you've brought along a bangle which is a rather unusual design, isn't it? it's fashioned as a ram's head with a coiling sort of mount to it. what's the story behind it? well, my mother bought it in the mid-1960s at a charity shop, and she wore it a few times but she died about 25 years ago. well, it's quite strange looking, isn't it? it is a very strange looking piece. what's your feeling about it this legacy of yours? well, it's stayed in the safe for the last 25 years. it's never been worn so that probably says everything. unloved. ( all laugh ) really? oh, dear. so what you bring it along today, then? well, i've just been fascinated by it. it's so unusual that i really wanted to know the history of it. let me say first of all it's not modern. it's not been made in some factory

or anything like that. it's a handmade bangle made in about 1865. right. and it follows a particular style whereby in 1865, italy produced an awful lot of interesting pieces that were very much of the roman, etruscan egyptian, hellenisitic the ancient look. and this is actually a bangle that's modeled on the ancient style and we have a name for that. we call it classical revivalism. how do i know it's made in 1865? because classical revivalism hit its peak in about 1865 and specifically in rome. is that right? now, what they did is they applied little scrolls little wirework decoration and also can you see here? have a look at this. look at this.

you see all these little beads? that was called granulation or shotwork. and the technique for applying shotwork was incredibly difficult. if you--just think about that. you've got to take a tiny little ball and you have to solder it onto the surface of the background there, of the field. and when you look at this-- come look at this. come look at this. look at all the pattern that they managed to get in here. so i know you don't like it. no, but it's stunning. can you appreciate that? yes, yes. yes, you can. good. good. now i'll have a look at the ram. the fleece obviously but look at the minute degree of texturing on his face. it's really good, you know. but can i tell you something? i don't know what it's made of. oh, really? i truly do not know what it's made of. i've studied it under my lens, and when i've examined it, i can't be sure,

because there were a certain proportion of these made in 1865 that were metal. and that's a worry that i've got. 'cause if it's gold, it's one thing. if it's metal, it's something completely different. so i have a favor to ask you. yes? would you be willing for me just to apply a very small test to it? the idea would be to rub the surface of the piece in a position where obviously you can't see it. but it wouldn't be invasive, i can promise you that. and then use a drop of testing fluid. all right. if i put a drop of testing fluid onto that little scratch mark that i make on the touch stone and if it goes green it's metal. if it stays the same color it's not metal. are you happy with that? yes, fine. fine. you ready, everybody? i'm going to get my glasses out for this. i'll just get my touchstone.

and what i'm going to do is i'm gently going to rub-- can you see underneath the coil here of the horn? i think that is a position where it's simply-- you know, it's not going to damage it. it's just rubbing the surface onto the touchstone. ( squeaking ) now do you see that? look, i've made that little yellow mark there. ( all laugh ) oh, i can't see. what did she pay for it? £25. £25. congratulations. you own a bangle worth 7,000. oh! oh!

you're joking. ( applause ) good god. i like it a bit better now. ( all laugh ) well, you've heard that expression "all that glisters is not gold," and with that magic solution john benjamin is able to give us the answer. that is a roadshow first for us and one great way to end the program. from the channel islands and from the roadshow team until next time, bye-bye.

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the big easy signature style. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. tonight the obama administration denounces the assault on the u.s. embassy in turkey as a terrorist attack. a suicide bomber blew himself up at a security gate killing a turkish security guard and injuring those nearby. according to turkish prime minister, an outlawed marxist group is responsible for the violence. our james reynolds is on the scene and filed this report. >> america's foreign missions are as much fortresses as embassies. this is why. this afternoon, a suicide bomber got to the gate of the u.s. embassy but but no

further. his explosives detonated as a checkpoint. the bomber and a turkish security guard were killed. >> i wasn't sure what the explosion was. so i ran to see. they were body parts on the road. arms and legs but i didn't want to look any further. >> the attack on the embassy makes for a bitter last day of work for america's chief diplomats. >> i spoke with the ambassador and the team there. i spoke with my turkish counterparts and i told them how much we valued their commitment and their sacrifice. >> this is not the first time that western targets in curky have been hit -- turkey have been hit. in 2003 truck bombs hit targets in istanbul, including the u.k. consulate. those attacks were carried out by al qaeda affiliated groups. turkey says that this u.s. embassy attack was carried out

by a leftist militant organization. the effect is the same. >> america is the target there are nationalist, left wing group, as well as islamists in tushy who are not happy with their relationship with washington. >> >> this attack may not damage that alliance but it may force america to increase its security here. and elsewhere. a retreat behind fortress walls would hurt u.s. diplomacy. turkey is a nato country and it's one of america's most important allies in this region. for the u.s., that makes this attack all the more painful. even on allied territory, a diplomat cannot feel safe. james reynolds, bbc news. >> for more on today's attack, i spoke a brief time ago with a director of theture concern

research program at the washington institute. turkish officials say this bombing was linked to left wing militants in turkey. why would they attack the u.s. embassy? >> left wing tradition in turkey rooted in turkey's marxist movements in the 1970's, is famously anti-american and although since the 1907s a collapse of communism these radical movements have been smaller in size, they were once movements with tens of thousands of people. they're still anti-american and i think we've seen a deployment of nato patriot missiles in turkey to guard turkey against instability from syria, so this never lent but kind of -- veer lent but kind of marginalized trend has been mobilized with the presence of u.s. troops and with the arrival of americans. >> so this is definitely related to the civil war in syria? >> it is a spillover of syria into turkey in an unexpected way. obviously through unfortunately a number of casualties and i think you are seeing the radical left in turkey, at least parts of it, let's say,

rise from its ashes. >> is it possible that this group could have been subcontracted in some way by al qaeda? >> that's hard to say. because i think, first we need to confirm that this is in fact a revolutionary group that the turkish police said is behind the attack. then i think people will start looking for outside sources. obviously people will say, who would be interested in hurting turkey at this stage or hurting turkish-u.s. cooperation or rallying turkish public opinion against u.s. presence in turkey. one could look for actors such as the iranians and al qaeda but that would be a far stretch right now to assume that. question say for sure that this looks like -- we say for sure that this looks like -- >> u.s. and diplomatic facilities in turkey have been targeted in the past, haven't me? >> they have been and in fact while the british posts have been targeted by al qaeda, american posts have typically been targeted exclusively almost by radical marxist groups. this happened in 2002. u.s.a. consulate was attacked. it happened during the first

golf war. when there was u.s. troop deployment in turkey and actually two american personnel were killed by the same group and other various factions have targeted u.s. personnel in the past. >> this is the second deadly attack on a u.s. diplomatic building in five months. isn't it? >> it is. unfortunately. and the good news is that this is a very fringe group. it's a marginal group. it does not have representation across the broader turkish society. most turks have turned away from this kind of radical violent movement and the other piece of good news is that the u.s. embassy has excellent perimeter defense. the attackers were not able to get close to the embassy. unfortunately they did kill a security guard and wounded another person. but it shows that their ability to hurt turkey and tush i, society is -- turkish society is really limited. this is an attack where the attacker destroys himself or herself but does very little otherwise. it just shows they're very ideologically committed strain of violence. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> in egypt thousands of

antigovernment protesters have renewed their marches in cairo and other cities. they've there have been a number of clashes with security forces who have been firing tear gas and water canners. but after more than a week of unrest, president morsi has issued a statement saying those behind the violence will be held politically accountability -- accountable. >> flashes on the doorstep of the presidential palace. the fires from the cocktails thrown, a message to muhammad morsi. the people feel betrayed. the revolution was supposed to turn egypt into a country where everyone prospered. and where there was justice. for these people who gathered earlier in their new regular friday rituals, reform is coming far too slowly. >> we're back to another

demonstration in tahrir square. of course piece people feel passionately about wanting to change things. there are many, many egyptians who feel demonstrations like this are counterproductive and need to stop. ahmed is one of those who feel that after so many decades of dictatorship, the new president needs more time to fix things. >> right nouts not the right time to do this anymore. i mean, egypt really does need all the people to take charge right now. it's in the healing period. >> but the opposition demonstrators insist this is just the continuation of the revolution. until they get the egypt they want. what do you say to those people who are saying, look, we need stability more than anything? we don't need more disruption. >> well, i think this sort of demands should be made toward the president who is taking the decisions. >> tonight egyptian tv has been

showing what appears to be a demonstrator being stripped, beaten and dragged across the ground by the security forces. protesters who say this is what they were fighting to stop are promising more action. the president says there will be even tougher retaliation. >> to china now where a truck carrying fireworks has exploded on an elevated highway. part of the road collapsed. vehicles were sent flying into the air and plunged 30 meters into the valley below. at least five people are known to have been killed but the figure is hard to verify as we now report. >> the laurie ladened with fireworks was passing over a high elevated section of road when it exploded. the force of the blast is said to have blown cars into the air. others came down with the collapsing highway, falling 30 meters into the valley below.

china's official state-run news agency reported that a total of 25 vehicles had been vovened. in the runup to chinese new year there is a huge demand for fireworks of course and they are sometimes transported and stored in unsafe conditions. a store room explosion in the same province back in 2006 killed 36 people and injured dozens more. the explosion is likely to effect travel in the country's central hue unanimous province and beyond. the holiday sees tens of millions of migrant workers returning to their home villages and the road is one of china's main east-west highways. >> let's take a look at other news now. the latest unemployment data in america's been released. it shows that 157,000 jobs were created last month. jobs rose in the retail, construction and health care.

but employment in manufacturing remains stagnant. despite those new jobs, the overall unemployment figure increased slightly from 7.8% to 7 dt 9%. that jobs news was one of the facts that are helped push the dow jones index up nearly 150 points at above 14,000 for the first time since 2007. before the financial crisis began. this marks the ninth time in history the dow has closed above that illusive 14,000 mark. google has settled a long-term dispute with french media companies over the internet giant's right to use content that it didn't produce. in a deal signed by the president and google boss, google will set up an $82 million fund to help old media adapt to the digital age. publishers in germany are still involved in a similar dispute. after four years of leading the u.s. state department, today

hillary clinton formally turned into her resignation. speaking to her staff one last time, she issued her thanks and ended them to carry on their -- encouraged thome carry on their work for the -- them to carry on their work for the country and the president. how will she be remembered? the bbc's state department correspondent looks back at her legacy. >> she's one of the most recognized and respected women in the world. after four years as secretary of state, hillary clinton leaves the job with close to 70% approval rating. >> i am going to miss it. i'm going to miss the people i worked with here, i'm going to misrepresenting my country when that blue and white plane with the united states of america lands, i'm going to miss making the progress that we made over the last four years in restoring american leadership and solving problems and setting out long-term challenges. it's very exciting and very moving. >> the biggest of all, the arab

revolutions. clinton and the obama administration have de-- have to find their way in the new arab world. in asia clinton helped build new alliances. burma came into the fold. it all took endless meetings with world leaders. >> i think she has established relationships with leaders of some well over 100 nations and so that she can pick up the phone at any time, if there have been crises that thank have been diffused thanks to the relationships she has, they know she peeks -- speaks for the american people and the president of the united states and there have been numerous occasions where she has turned what could have been a looming crisis into a situation which was calmed. >> for four years hillary clinton chriscrossed the globe. she visited 112 countries, spent 2,000 hours on a plane and traveled close to one million miles. that's almost 40 times around the world. >> i did enjoy it.

i enjoyed the challenge of travel the unique experiences that we had all over the world. i'm also lucky i can sleep on planes and did so regularly. >> but her critics say she has little to show for her hard work. the reset with russia has malfunctioned, hindering any solution to the violence in syria. and middle east peace is nowhere to be seen. >> i don't think that secretary clinton has been a very consequently secretary of state. shi they'll be remembered mostly as a celebrity and a world traveler. a person with the greatest number of frequent flier miles. not for her impact on some huge policy issue u.s.-russia u.s.-china, some great crisis. >> clinton believes that's a narrow way of defining her role and the scope of american power. >> my first responsibility was to restore american leadership which had been tattered and damaged. so that was one of the reasons

that i was out there day in and day out. and i think we not only reversed that view but we set the table for dealing with a lot of problems. >> for four years hillary clinton worked on the seventh floor of this building and traveled the globe. in the process she evolved from being a politician to being a stateswoman. and she achieved another remarkable feat. she was always popular and polarizing. now she seems to be just popular. with both democrats and republicans. when she leaves the state department on friday clinton will be able to pick any job she wants once she's gotten some rest. and many want her to run for president in 2006. she insists she's -- 2006. she insists she's -- 2016. she insists she's done with politics. at least for now. >> and hillary clinton as i successor, john kerry, was sworn in just a short time ago. you're watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, he was the man never

afraid to speak his mind. tonight we look back on the life of ed koch and his lasting impact on new york city. in mexico city, authorities are promising a farrer investigation after 32 people were killed in a blast at mexico's state-owned oil company. >> the blast took place at the worst possible moment. in the middle of the afternoon, just as shifts were changing. workers at the state-run energy giant who were in the lobby were caught up in the explosion whicher to through the ground floor -- which tore through the ground floor. emergency services were quickly on the scene and the red cross attended to many of the injured -- injured outside the building. others were taken to nearby hospitals. as the building was evacuated, it soon became clear that the blast had caused significant loss of life and damage. >> we saw the explosion and all

the windows in the tower came down. it was very strong. >> we evacuated the tower and i was trapped in the elevator and that scared me. >> large numbers of troops and police have been deployed to help with the rescue operation. the authorities confirmed there were people trapped underneath the rubble. both the president and the mayor of mexico city have visited the scene. the mexican capital is used to experiencing earthquakes. the authorities appear well prepared for search and rescue work. sniffer dogs are being used to look for survivors. so far though, the authorities have remained tight-lipped about the cause of the blast. local media are reporting that it might have been caused by an electrical fault or gas leak in an adjacent building but there's no confirmation nor denial of that. behind this police cordon, the rescue operation is continuing and preparing to carry on throughout the night. still on the scene here there are family members of missing

workers desperately waiting for news of their loved ones. and either way this is the worst explosion in mexico city for almost 30 years. will grant bbc news, mexico. >> now to the wise-cracking former mayor of new york who was as colorful and as exuberant as his city. ed koch was known for speaking his mind and taking on his critics. after a decade of leading the big apple in the 1980's, he's also remembered for saving the city from near financial ruin. koch died today at the age of 88 from heart failure. he was famous for asking, how am i doing? a brief time ago i asked the new yorkers' john cassidy for his verlander. >> he was great new yorker. when the city was sort of down in the dumps and people thought this was going bankrupt he came up from the streets and said, we're not finished. i can run this place.

he put more cops on the street, he stood up to the unions during a big transit strike, he attracted more investment. lots of people didn't like him but they sorted respected his energy and that he wasn't giving up on the city. >> i mean, his supporters say that ed koch changed the narrative of new york from one of decline to one of resurgence. sounds like you think that might be true? >> well, i mean, that's a bit too much. you can't put it all down to him. but he sort of got the ball rolling. he came in as mayor in 1977 and just joined the campaign then. there was a big power outage and there was widespread a lotting, pictures went around the world. it seemed like new york was spiraling out of control. the city was nearly bankrupt. one of his first acts was to go down to washington and ask washington to guarantee some new york city bonds. so giuliana played a big role, mayor giuliani in bringing down the crime rate. the current mayor, bloomberg, has done a lot for the city's economy but it was koch who took over when things were at their depths and even people

who don't like him i think give him credit for doing that. >> how about his record on race relations she? >> well, it's very controversial. he got elected with support of the black community but then double crossed them. that was why a lot of people didn't like him. he did deals with people and often turned against them. he was also accused of -- and i was living here at the time he certainly wasn't very sensitive to police brutality and things like that. he tended to take the view of the people in the outer burrow, mostly white new yorkers, who thought things were spiraling out of control and he needed a sort of crackdown on crime. so he started off pretty popular with the black community but he didn't end up very popular and it was of course new york's first black mayor who eventually defeated him when he ran for mayor for the third time. >> tell us more about the reaction on the streets of new york today. >> well, i mean, like everybody else, i'm listening to the box pops and maybe there's a bit of selection by us but most of the reports seem to be very

positive. the other thing about koch, it's quite a long time now since he resigned as mayor or got voted out as mayor. that was 1989. so he had a second career as a sort of elder statesman and a sort of figure head for the city and sort of pop culture way. i think that also it is zsh did a lot for his reputation. he's always been on the radio and in the newspapers here. and he's seen as like could he jack or seinfeld or somebody. he's seen as the public face of new york. >> john, thank you very much indeed for joining us. >> thank you. >> now to the event much of america is waiting for. this weekend the super bowl will take place in new orleans. for the city, it's another step in the long road to recovery after hurricane katrina. in 2005 the storm devastated the city. the superdome, where players will take to the field on sunday, became a shelter back then. our correspondent was there seven years ago. now he's returned for this report.

>> music has always kept new orleans alive. there's a lot to play for with the super bowl in town and the eyes of america turning on the city. and the big game in the big easy comes in carve value season. it's also mardi gras prompting a more sporting touch to the parade floats this time around. a gleaming new superdome is hosting the american football final. you might remember it from seven years ago. hurricane katrina almost destroyed the city. and its its stadium-turned-storm shelter. doug was the manager back then. and still is today. >> the water penetrated from right up here at the apeck of the roof. >> conditions inside were appalling. 30,000 people took refuge here in the days after the storm. >> i'll never forget the smell. we had no running water.

very little food and water in here. the toilets were overflowing. it was really a horrific place to be. but at the same time there was nowhere to go. >> did you ever think on that day that you'd ever be hosting a super bowl again? >> not in my wildest dreams. i have to be honest with you. when i left here, i thought that perhaps i was leaving for the last time. >> the superdome became a symbol of the terrible things people suffered in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. a sense of abandonment from the government. the fact that it's now opened its doors seven years later to america's biggest supporting event is also a symbol of justice how -- sporting event is another symbol of just how far this city has come. even in the lower ninth ward there's a splash of color. however bizarre. a few streets of new homes brad pitt helped to build. but it's not enough. there were thousands of houses here before this levee broke and the whole place was leveled. it's still a wasteland of empty lots and abandoned homes where few have returned.

>> this house has been sitting here with this tree on top of it since hurricane katrina. >> vanessa has seen little change. despite all the money pledged to her neighborhood. >> the money that was given by the federal government to give to homeowners to are -- to rebuild in this community has been redirected to upgrades for the superdome. has been redirected for upgrades in the quarter. and downtown new orleans. >> hosting the super bowl in the superdome is a huge boost for the city's image and finances. but there's still a great deal to do. when the crowds all go home. >> will the 49ers or ravens triumph on sunday? one thing we do know, beyonce will be sicking ssh singing live this time at half time. that brings today's broadcast to a close but you can continue watching "bbc world news" for constant updates from around the world on our 24-hour news

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